Dominique Crenn’s highly-anticipated wine bar and ode to French cooking, Bar Crenn, opens Tuesday night, creating a San Francisco restaurant triumvirate for a chef widely recognized as one of the best on the planet.

Crenn’s spinoff project, which is adjacent to her two-Michelin-starred Atelier Crenn on Fillmore Street, will have a rotating cast of French wine collection curated by wine director Matt Montrose. Bar Crenn’s cocktail component is compact with a nod to old-style French aperitifs.

As for Bar Crenn’s food, the menu has evolved since the Crenn herself announced the project in December 2016. Initially Crenn planned to focus on small plates. Then in January, the chef said the food would be an “homage to the classics of French gastronomy.” The recipes are “donated” by French powerhouses like Alain Ducasse and Yannick Alléno, among others.

Some of the dishes include iced poached oyster, inspired by chef Guy Savoy; les pommes moulees with smoked trout roe via chef Guillaume Gomez; as well as brioche with cultured butter and whipped beef fat from next door at Atelier Crenn.

The entirety of Bar Crenn’s menu is available a la carte or as a three-course tasting menu for $85; its website describes the menu as “a rotating menu of typically eight menu items, all of which are shareable bites.” There’s also a $165 caviar tasting for parties of two. Reservations for Bar Crenn are available on Tock. (See the photos below for more on the food.)

Photo: Bar Crenn

Bar Crenn

Bar Crenn

Photo: Bar Crenn

Bar Crenn

Bar Crenn

About 17 wines are available by the glass, ranging in price from $14 to $50.

As prominent as the Bar Crenn project may be, its debut may have been trumped for a few days in late-February when Crenn announced a surprise venture in San Francisco’s brand-new Salesforce Tower — Boutique Crenn.

And if Bar Crenn’s style, which Crenn has said is her interpretation of a Parisian salon of yesteryear, was a chance for Crenn to flex her design muscle, Boutique Crenn will be where she unleashes it. The project is part boulangerie, part patisserie and part restaurant ensconced in a fashion and art-focused environment.